Often when new mystery shoppers first sign up to work with their first mystery shopping providers, they have grand visions about the type of assignments they will work on. In their mind, many envision strolling through a shopper’s heaven of clothes, shoe racks, home décor and more, and getting paid for their time and effort. While some assignments are as amazing as mystery shoppers first dreamed they would be, other…
Fun Spring Mystery Shopping Assignments to Brighten Your Day
The spring months may be known for warm, brilliantly sunny days and gorgeous spring flowers. In most parts of the country, though, there are plenty of miserable, dreary, and even downright cold days mixed in between the beautiful days. Those dreary days can really bring you down, but there are a few fun mystery shopping assignments you can pick up to brighten even the gloomiest of days. Lunch With a…
Top 3 Things Mystery Shoppers Can Do to Earn More Money
Many mystery shoppers today would love to find a way to earn more money with their assignments. However, with a limited selection of assignments to choose from on mystery shopping job boards as well as a limited amount of time to complete those assignments, earning more money seems to be an impossibility. However, there are a few different things you can do today to earn more money today and each…
How You Know You’re No Longer a Newbie Mystery Shopper
Many people start their mystery shopping career off with high hopes and aspirations. If you are like most mystery shoppers, you first started out your career believing the job would allow you to earn a fabulous income with relatively little effort required. You dreamed of earning big paychecks, getting tons of free merchandise, and spending leisurely time shopping in all of your favorite stores. With time, however, you get more…
How Much Is Your Time Worth As a Mystery Shopper?
Mystery shoppers may have one of the best jobs in the world. As a mystery shopper, you can set your own work hours, get paid to walk through stores and eat at restaurants, and you can even bring your kids or spouse to work with you if you want. As great as the job is, however, many mystery shoppers share the same complaint about the job. That complaint is the…
How to Do More Mystery Shopping Assignments in Less Time
Mystery shopping is often considered to be one of the most enjoyable ways to earn a living. Professional mystery shoppers largely love their job for a variety of reasons. This is a job that enables you to work in a variety of different settings each day, to interact with different people throughout the day and to control your work load and the assignments you work on. As amazing as mystery…
How to Improve Your Mystery Shopping Skills
At first glance, mystery shopping doesn’t appear to be a job that requires considerable skills. When you apply to work as a mystery shopper, some providers simply want to gather basic details such as your gender and age before allowing you to work for them. Others may have a short writing test that most people can easily pass. Because of this, almost anyone who wants to be a mystery shopper…
Who Gets Those Higher Paying Mystery Shopping Assignments?
Often when mystery shoppers initially sign up to work with their first mystery shopping provider, they have grand dreams about working on exciting assignments at luxury resorts, fine dining restaurants, and more. Once you visited the job boards a few times, however, you realized that those assignments were truly few and far between. More than that, you may have seen posts on mystery shopping forums where other mystery shoppers have…
Make More Money by Being a Smarter Mystery Shopper
Mystery shopping is a job well-suited for so many people. Whether you want to work an hour or two per week or have the need to work forty or more hours a week, you can generally find the work you need to satisfy your time availability and income requirements. Further, this job requires little skills and no training, so almost anyone can sign up to be a mystery shopper and…
Making More Money as a Mystery Shopper Without Working More
Some mystery shoppers work full-time hours on mystery shopping assignments while others use their mystery shopping assignments as a source of part-time income. Regardless of the number of hours a mystery shopper is able to devote to the job, however, most mystery shoppers want to find a way to earn more money for their efforts. So how can you earn more money as a mystery shopper without working more? Improve…